Is there life after forty? Jan Lund Thomsen brings you a bunch of tunes that have nothing in common apart from the fact that the original SID's were all composed between 1984 and 1986. Besides the music there is also news about the C64 music scene. You can download this MP3 on Jan's web page (34.1 Mbyte)

If you want to know everything about tape loaders you can take a look at this web page. There is a page that explains how to transfer data from a original tape to a PC. Also all tape turbo's are explained.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Chris Hülsbeck, Turrican, history of phone phreaking, Jim Butterfield and much more.

The C64 emulator Hoxs64 of David Horrocks has been updated. Some of the new features are: Improved handling of video modes, fixes for the VIC, Floppy LEDs are now working. You can download the emulator at the Davids web page.

This is an enhanced and bugfixed version of Ultima III for the Commodore 64. The original port from Apple II suffers from a lot of technical problems. Some of the new features are: Fastloader, Fits on a single disk side, Keyboard remapping, Trainers, The tile plotting routine has been rewritten which speeds up the game significantly.

Saehn of Style released a very nice picture called Icosahedron. Saehn has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

Redrunner is the sequel to Greenrunner. Music by GRG and the game has also speech samples. All new graphics and refreshed levels. Greenrunner was not fast enough and it was way too easy.

Per Håkan Sundell has released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. This emulator can be used on Windows computers with DirectX 9.0 (98 / ME / 2000 / XP). There has been a lot of bug fixes so more games and demos run without problems.

Fotios is developing cartridges for the C64/C128. At the moment there is a Eprom cartridge for 8 x 8 kbyte, a RS-232 interface for the userport and a MIDI system. Other systems in development are a cartridge expander and a Stereo SID cartridge.

Only a few details are know about this new cartridge. The cartridge will be presented at the ECCC expo. Memory 512 kB Flash ROM and 128 kB RAM, CS8900A Ethernet Controller and a MicroSD slot.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Benders column, Interview with Georg Rottensteiner and a replacement power-supply for the 1541/71.

Mikael Sjoberg released a new version of OxPaint. This paint program can be used on a Windows computer but makes pictures that are compatible with the Commodore 64. In this version there the following new features: undo, recent, line, continuous line, circle, different pens, fullscreen prev, integrated with BMP2SpriteConverter. Several bugs fixed.

Gregg developed a faster version of the MMC64 D64 Reader which utilizes DreamLoad instead of the slow Kernal routines. It will read a disk side in about 80 seconds instead of almost 10 minutes.

The web site where you can watch a long play of games has been updated. More than 25 new entries are available. There are now more than 200 longplays available.

A new game for the C64 by: Richard Bayliss, Jaymz Julian and Johan Janssen. Instructions: Barry the Bear wakes up and finds himself stranded on a strange planet full of different colored gardens. The poor bear is starving so it is up to you to help Barry gather all the food for a good feast. Unfortunately he's not alone as there are alien bugs guarding the gardens. Watch out, they can catch you. You have 16 levels to complete.

In this German PDF magazine: News, Vince Briel, Birthday of the PET and the C64, Hardware 1541 / 1551, Crackers, C64DTV2.

In this German D64 magazine: News, Hardware (idefix2, astra, laptop mod), laberecke, highscore and more.

Duce of Extend released a very nice picture called Sweet Chili O'Mine. Duce has made many pictures for the Commodore C64. You can take a look at his art on the CSDb.

Georg Rottensteiner has finished his C64 project. It's a game called Joe Gunn. In this game you are Joseph J. Gunn Archeologist by passion. By chance you stumbled upon an unknown pyramid in the desert of egypt. You suspect it to be the long lost tomb of the Crocodile King. The king whose name has been erased from history as if nobody should ever know of his existence. Can you enter the tomb, solve it's secret and escape alive again? Puzzles, traps and ancient enemies await you in more than 70 rooms with puzzles and enemies.

A new game by Mombasa Joe. The story: Bedlam City 1976. Ugly Fat Joe controls the entire city. The police is on the take and murder and extortion by gangsters happens on a daily basis. The best running factory is a drugs lab run by Ugly Fat Joe. The only one that can put an end to all this is Goldshaft.

Primary Star will take place on August 10, 11 and 12 in the town Reusel in the Netherlands. Check the web page for more news and info.

The Vintage Computer Festival East 4.0 was held Saturday and Sunday, June 9th and 10th in Wall Township NJ. Take a look at the very special items shown on the festival like a 264, C64 LCD and the Amiga AAA motherboard.

In this German PDF magazine: News, Lance Lyon, Book review about the Amiga, C64-online.com and the Commodore meeting Wien.

In this German PDF magazine the following items: Interview with Miha Peternel, top 10 Games, 10 years HVSC and much more.

ODO made a new web site dedicated to the game Boulderdash. ODO has just started but is expanding his web site in the near future.

The web site dedicated to finding games that are unreleased or incomplete is updated and is now close to the magic number of 1000 games. On the web site you can find lots of info on these games.

Richard Bayliss released a new game made with SEUCK. Snodge has been tossed into the water. Feeling racked off, Snodge undergoes a quest, which is to reach the surface of the water, and make it to freedom. One problem is that there are sea creatures out to stop him. Can he get out of the water before he gets attacked by the terrors of the deep?

Michael Sachse from cbmhardware.de has started on designing a co-processor for the C64. It will be a expansion port based device. The processor will be a Atmel Mega32 (16 Mips). Two extra 64kB memory banks will be added for the fast serial port and user memory for the co-processor. If you want to contribute to this project you can contact the web master.

If you want to watch a C64 demo take a look at www.c64.ch. It has been updated recently with demos from: Dominators (37) Beastie Boys (52) Hokuto Force (1) Triumwyrat (15) Atlantis (4) and Crazy (10). There is also a Top 10 of all demos and lots of screen shots.

Issue 56 of the German disk magazine (D64) brings us: News, Hardware, Laberecke, MM-Markt, HQ.

Primary Star is a C64 party organized by Anubis from August 10th till August 12th in the town of Reusel (The Netherlands). HCC Members can buy a day ticket! Just show your clubcard! As always free Beer, live entertainment, cool party people and the best waste of your time there is.

The following in the German PDF magazine: They, MMC64, GameOver(view), Blue Max, Zaxxon, Zeppelin and Co, Bender's Column, Battle Throne, Dead Head.

In this German D64 magazine the items: MMC64, Hall of Fame, Druckerei-story and more.

Scout made another podcast with great C64 tunes. On this episode the following tracks: Lou Gray - Yakki Da, Metal - Sayonara, Jeff - Commodore 64, Fanta - Desert Dream Part 2, Aleksi Eeben - One For Reed, Fred Gray - Mutants, Laxity - Laxace, Orcan - A Demo Bit, Jammer - Latex Sensations, Reyn Ouwehand - Dutch Breeze, Jeroen Tel - Sonic Soul. You can download this almost 80 MByte mp3 Podcast right now!

Oliver Achten has mad a bunch of new releases for the MMC64. It now supports FAT32 formatted MMC/SD cards. New software: MMC64 BIOS V1.10, MMC64 MP3 plugin V0.70, MMC64 Picture plugins V1.3, MMC64 AVF plugin V0.3, AVF Testvideo. AVF is the new "standard" for videos on C64 with MMC64. It's 25fps, 152x80pixels, 96kbps MP3 (with MP3@C64).

64COPY is an all-purpose DOS and C64 emulator file manager. It specializes in converting and manipulating emulator files between various formats. 64COPY does file conversions between D64, D71, D81, D80, D82, DNP, D2M, T64, G64, PC64 (Pxx, Sxx, Uxx, Rxx), LNX, DOS binaries, ARC, SDA, X64, LBR, ARK, SPY and CPK files. It also has a very powerful 6502 Disassembler, TEXT, HEX and D64 HEX editors, FILE viewer, BASIC unlister, D64/D71/D81/D80/D82 directory customizer. Check disks and T64, ZipCode, G64, F64 and CRT files for errors.

Roland Tögel in the scene better know as Crossbow made another demo. For people who know a bit about sprites will say that sprites are only 24 pixels wide and you can expand them to 48 pixels. But Crossbow is now displaying sprites that are 50 pixels wide. Another fact is that you can only display 8 sprites on 1 line. Well that is not true anymore either. In the bottom of the border there are 9 sprites on one line. And also a fantastic picture scrolling from left to right. And did he also fix the 3 column bug along the way?

In the 2 x D64 magazine the following items: The Awards, World of Demos, Profile of Tobias Svensson, Breakpoint, St.Lars meeting, Oxyron party, Forever7 and the List. And also a "friendly" item about the Retard Scene...

In this latest release the following features: New menus have been added in Windows style dialogs. The screen output can be saved as a (un-compressed) AVI file (audio + video). New key combinations for controlling the video and audio saving. Also fixed are several errors in the textual menus.

This wiki contains all kinds of articles related to C64 coding. Sourcecodes, tutorials, notes on clever tricks and hardware quirks and so on... You name it! The wiki is open for everyone to read and modify and you do not need to register to add your own material. So go ahead and fill this site with nice contents!

In this German PDF magazine the following articles. Retro-Party in Essen. Singular Browser. Happy Birthday, System 3! CEBIT-Special. Interview with Hansjürg Wüthrich. Software: Proton - Editor for ACME and Co.

Trifox released a new game. The goal of Brickout Game is to solve a level, a level is solved when there is no stone left. At least 2 stones of the same color can be taken out of the game. In higher levels the stones begin to slip, and the stones crash together.

This is a open-source D64 disk image editor for Mac, Linux and Windows. It offers a nice GUI with drag-and-drop support between disk images and the local file system. Runs programs or mounts images directly in your favorite emulator. RR-Net support is available and allows to transfer programs and even disk images directly to your real C64.

Industrial Revolution is a demo made for the Commodore C64. The code and graphics are made by AEG and SoNiC made the music. The demo reached the 3rd place at the Breakpoint #7 party.

The Sixty Four Originals Database site has been updated. On this web site you can see the original packaging, disks and cassettes of more than 1400 games. The last update added another 50 titles.

Always played a game but did not get to the end. On the web site c64endings.co.uk you can see the end of your favorite game. At the moment there are 165 games in the database. Also there is a list of games that do not end.

Arno Weber well known for his Arno Dash has made a web page filled with 190 Boulderdash caves. Here you can take a look at the caves you never got to. Not only caves from Arno but from another 20 cave builders as well.

Scout released a new podcast. In episode 11 a tribute to Richard Joseph. SIDs in this podcast are: Richard Joseph - The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Rob Hubbard - Light Force, Dane - Arctic Circles, Jeff - 6581 Doped Cows, Oliver Kläwer - Emerald Mine, DRAX - Spunk, Richard Joseph - Rimrunner, Deek - Ostfriesland Games, Jens-Christian Huus - Super Oswald, CreamD - Critical Grid Voltage and Jeroen Tel - Iron Lord.

For the users of the RR-Net there is a new version of Netmon. This tools allows you to connect your PC to C64 via RR-Net. NETMON gives you a powerful monitoring tool for cross developing or remote accessing your C64 equipped. NETMON is available as Windows Executable or for Linux/Unix (Source and Binary). On the web page you can find the files and a complete description.

In this German PDF magazine the following articles: Interview with Yogibear, Keyrah, Competition Pro and more.